![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But they continue to rise, lately taking stranger and stranger shapes.Īrchitects themselves - at least the advance guard among them, who talk and theorize as much as they build - seem to like to denounce the whole business, and promise to rescue us from the grip of modern architecture. This public disaffection may be due to the great size of the new buildings as much as to anything else. And while some of the new buildings excite the public imagination, as a group they are not nearly so popularĪs the old ones. Sleek modern buildings go up, covering moreĪnd more of the landscape with glass and aluminum and steel and concrete, as ornate buildings of stone go down to make way for them. Here is almost no one who is not bewildered by the events of the last two decades in architecture. OctoFrom Bauhaus to Our House By PAUL GOLDBERGER ![]()
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